Aspilota isfahanensis, a new species of the genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 from Iran (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae)

Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo; Zahra Yari; Ehsan Rakhshani; Sergey A Belokobylskij

doi:10.3897/zookeys.582.7426

Aspilota isfahanensis, a new species of the genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 from Iran (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae)

Zookeys. 2016 Apr 21:(582):121-7. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.582.7426. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo¹, Zahra Yari², Ehsan Rakhshani², Sergey A Belokobylskij³

Affiliations

¹ Bleichestrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland.
² Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, P. O. Box: 98615-538, I. R. Iran.
³ Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 199034, Russia; Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, Warszawa 00-679, Poland.

Abstract

A new species of Aspilota without mesoscutal pit, Aspilota isfahanensis Peris-Felipo, sp. n., is described and illustrated from Iran. The new species is compared with its three morphologically most similar species, Aspilota compressiventris Stelfox & Grahan, 1951, Aspilota makita Papp, 2008 and Aspilota spiracula Munk & Peris-Felipo, 2013, is provided. A key to the western Asian species of Aspilota is provided.

Keywords: Alysiinae; Aspilota; Iran; Palaearctic; identification key; new species.